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His descriptions convey with equal force the stillness of the forest, the mute hostility of a marriage, the ardent impulses of youth.

A growing number of EU leaders are starting to admit that their legitimacy depends on responding effectively to electoral impulses.

That impulse can be tiresome, and in “Zootopia 2” it is.

Impulse policies, like impulse buys, can work out well or badly but can never be well rationalized.

Traders scrambling to explain the wild swings pointed to leverage—and an impulse to take profits before the year-end.

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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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